19 Facts About UNDP

UNDP emphasizes developing local capacity towards long-term self-sufficiency and prosperity.

UNDP operates in 170 countries and is funded entirely by voluntary contributions from UN member states.

Also, UNDP is governed by a 36-member executive board overseen by an administrator, who is third-highest ranking UN official after the Secretary-General and Deputy Secretary-General.

UNDP was founded on 22 November 1965 with the merging of the Expanded Programme of Technical Assistance and the Special Fund in 1958.

UNDP topped the Aid Transparency Index published by Publish What You Fund in 2015 and 2016.

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UNDP supports existing democratic institutions by increasing dialogue, enhancing national debate, and facilitating consensus on national governance programmes.

UNDP helps countries develop strategies to combat poverty by expanding access to economic opportunities and resources, linking poverty programmes with countries' larger goals and policies, and ensuring a greater voice for the poor.

UNDP united nation development programme International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth in Brasilia, Brazil, expands the capacities of developing countries to design, implement and evaluate socially inclusive development projects.

Between 1996 and 1998, the UNDP sponsored the deployment of 45 Multifunction Platforms in rural Mali.

Since 1991, the UNDP has annually published the Human Development Report, which includes topics on Human Development and the annual Human Development Index.

The UNDP's Evaluation Office is a member of the UN Evaluation Group which brings together all the units responsible for evaluation in the UN system.

UNDP plays a significant coordination role for the UN's activities in the field of development.

UNDP established the Innovation Facility in 2014, with support from the Government of Denmark, as a dedicated funding mechanism to nurture promising development interventions.

UNDP had been criticised by members of its staff and the Bush administration of the United States for irregularities in its finances in North Korea.

The UNDP denied keeping improper accounts and any other wrongdoing.

In mid-2006, as first reported by Inner City Press and then by New Vision, UNDP halted its disarmament programmes in the Karamoja region of Uganda in response to human rights abuses in the parallel forcible disarmament programmes carried out by the Uganda People's Defence Force.

The only two persons at UNDP who lost their job after years and years of alleged UNDP corruption and cover up were the two whistleblowers.

UNDP Administrator has the rank of an Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations.

The five countries on the UNDP board have some influence over selection of the administrator.